Department of Education

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PROGRAMS
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• Turkish Government amps up DepEds
  Computerization Program by donating computer
  packages to a school in Manila

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• Educators increase access to school donate bikes
  to students living in far-flung areas in Cebu
• -Pedals and Paddles Project

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• DepEd, DPWH to construct 1500 classrooms with
  PAGCOR
• -Matuwid na Daan para sa Paaralan

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• DepEd and education partners open 1,560
  scholarship grants for public school teachers
• -Project Flagship to Reach Educational
  Excellence (FREE)

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• DepEd, LGUs to work together on Senior HighSchool
  implementation
• -partnership with Asia Foundation.

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• Philippines beefs up ASEAN ties through student
  exchange program
• -ASEAn Student Exchange Program (ASEP)

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K to 12 Program

• Features
• Strengthening early childhood education
  (Universal Kindergarten)
• -R.A. 10157, The Kindergarten Education Law
• Making the curriculum relevant to learners
  (Contextualization and Enhancement)

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• Building proficiency (Mother Tongue-Based
  Multilingual Education)
• Ensuring Integrated and seamless learning (Spiral
  Progression)
• Gearing up for the future

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• Strengthening TVET Integration in Senior
  HighSchool
• Nurturing the holistically developed Filipino
  (College and Livelihood Readiness, 21st Century
  Skills)

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ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM
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K to 12 Concerns

• DepEd lacks resources to address its current
  input shortages (i.e. classrooms, teachers,
  textbooks, seats, water and sanitation
  facilities). With K to 12 and its added resource
  needs, how will this be addressed?

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• How can different sectors and individual citizens
  collectively collaborate to improve the basic
  education sector?
• When will the K to 12 program be implemented?

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• Where will the additional two years be added?
• Why are we implementing 12 years of basic
  education and not 11 years?

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• How will K to 12 help in ensuring employment for
  our graduates?
• What would be the assurance that K to 12
  graduates will be employed?

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• What will happen to colleges and universities
  during the initial nationwide implementation of
  Senior High School beginning in SY 2016-2017?
• Where will Senior High School be implemented?

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• How will DepEd recruit enough teachers for SY
  2016-2017 onwards?
• What are the guidelines for graduates of science,
  mathematics, statistics, engineering, music and
  other degree courses with shortages of qualified
  licensed teacher applicants?

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• What are the guidelines for hired
  technical-vocational course graduates, faculty of
  Higher Education Institutions, and practitioners?
• How will K to 12 affect the college curriculum?

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• How will K to 12 affect the college curriculum?
• What will happen to the curriculum? What subjects
  will be added and removed?
• Will students choose specializations or will this
  be determined by assessment?

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• For Senior High School, what will happen if
  majority of our students want to specialize in
  agriculture and only one is interested to take
  math or academics?  How will this be
  accommodated?
• What will happen to schools implementing special
  curricular programs such as science high schools,
  high schools for the arts, and technical
  vocational schools?

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• What will happen to multi-grade teaching?
• Alternative Learning System (ALS) age
  requirement is only 16 years old for the high
  school equivalency test. Will this change to 18?

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• Will K to 12 enhance programs targeted to
  indigenous people, Muslim learners, and people
  with special needs?
• Is Kindergarten a pre-requisite for entering
  Grade 1?
• Is there an overlap between the Day Care
  program of the Local Government Units (LGUs)and
  DepEd Kindergarten?

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• Should schools now prepare permanent records for
  Kindergarten students?
• Who is in-charge of Kindergarten teacher
  compensation? The LGU o DepEd?
• Will Mother Tongue Based Multi-Lingual Education
  (MTB-MLE) include other languages in the future?

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• Which Mother Tongue will be used in
  multi-cultural areas?
• Will teachers be burdened by additional teaching
  load due to the K to 12 program?
• Will teacher salary increase as a result of the K
  to 12 program?

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• How will teachers be prepared for the K to 12
  program?
• How will DepEd prepare its non-teaching staff and
  officials for smooth transition and
  implementation of the K to 12 Program?

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• Additional cost to families. How will government
  respond to this difficulty?
• What about the dropout problem? Will this be
  addressed by the K to 12 Curriculum?
• How will the government ensure the effectiveness
  of the K to 12 Program?

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• Won't this be another avenue for corruption? How
  can you ensure that funds will be released and
  used properly?
• What is my role in supporting this program?
• Which private institutions are allowed to offer
  Senior High School? Are they required to apply
  for a permit?

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• Can a private school offer Senior High
  School before SY 2016-2017?
• Who is in charge of evaluating the applications
  for the provisional SHS permit? Who will issue
  the permit?
• What are other information should the applicants
  remember in applying for a SHS permit?

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• Will SHS modelling schools that implemented the
  SHS program in SY  2012-13 be allowed to
  implement the SHS Program?
• What are other guidelines related to the SHS
  Program will DepEd issue?

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• How flexible will the private SHSs be allowed to
  enhance in terms of their proposed SHS Program?
  Can a school propose new SHS tracks and strands
  which are not found in the SHS Curriculum
  released?

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• CONTACT INFORMATION
• DepEd Complex, Meralco Ave.,Pasig City, Metro
  Manila(02) 636 1663 633 1942(63) 919 456
  0027action_at_deped.gov.ph